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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index db032ca..7edd4ba 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -578,6 +578,14 @@ Other functions The :mod:`socket` module also offers various network-related services: +.. function:: close(fd) + + Close a socket file descriptor. This is like :func:`os.close`, but for + sockets. On some platforms (most noticeable Windows) :func:`os.close` + does not work for socket file descriptors. + + .. versionadded:: 3.7 + .. function:: getaddrinfo(host, port, family=0, type=0, proto=0, flags=0) Translate the *host*/*port* argument into a sequence of 5-tuples that contain |